Birthday E-Mail Alerts

Updated Feb. 24, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

The Problem: You forgot Mom's birthday -- again.

The Solution: A number of free Web sites target people with bad track records on remembering birthdays. Most of them have the same basic idea: After you open an account and feed in the e-mail addresses of friends and relatives, the site messages them requesting their birthday details. You then get e-mail alerts ahead of the big day.